Machine for sprinkling potato-vines with a poisonous solution



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A. 0. PACKARD. MACHINE FOR SPRINKLING POTATO VINBS WITH A POISONOUS SOLUTION- No. 322,747. Patented July 21, 1 885.

WITH/58858 l/Vl/E/VTOR ATTOR/Vfy UNITED STATES ALLEN O. PACKARD, OF STEVENS POINT, WISCONSIN.

MACHINE FOR SPRIN KLING POTATO-V lNES WITH A POISONOUS SOLUTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed July To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALLEN O. PAOKARD,Of Stevens Point, in the county of Portage and State of \Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Sprinkling Potato-Vines with a Poisonous Solution; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the sprinkler without the transporting-wheels and drafttongue. Fig. 2 is atop view of Fig. 1 without the axle. Fig. 3 is a view of one end of the sprinkler. Fig. 4 is a top view of the trough,

showing the agitator.

This invention relates to machines designed to sprinkle potato or other vines with a poisonous solution in order to kill the insects that infect such vines; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the appended claims.

A designates a trough or boX,which should be made water-tight, and which may be made of any convenient length, and preferably provided with tightly-fitting covers. This trough or box is suitably secured to an axle, B, which is mounted on wheels, and provided with a draft-tongue. A seat, 0, will be secured to the trough at the middle of its length for the attendant who drives the horses and regulates the sprinkling devices.

The sprinkling devices are constructed as follows: D D D designate discharge-pipes, which are jointed to couplings a a a located at the bottom of the trough A and arranged equal distances apart. The rear extremities of said discharge-pipes have rose sprinklingnozzles a secured tothem by means of couplings b, for the purpose of distributing the poisonous solution in spray upon the vines. The pipes D are sustained in rear of the jointcouplings a by means of long loops or supports E, secured to the bottom of the trough A, which supports allow the sprinkling-nozzles,with their pipes D, to be adjusted laterally either to the right or left and sustained at any Patent N0. 322,747, dated July 21, 1885.

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desired distance apart. Each one of the pipes is provided with a cock, f, adapted for regulating the flow of the solution from the trough A, or entirely cutting off the flow at the pleasure of the attendant, and the valve-plug for each cock, f, is provided with a long stem, which passes through a sectional guide-block, F, secured to the back of the trough A, at the upper end thereof, and which is provided with a handle, h, on its upper end. Each guide-block is provided with a number of vertical holes, and also with a removable cap, by removing-which the stem 9 can be adjusted in any one of said holes, thereby adapting it to the position in which it is desired to have the sprinkler. It will be seenfrom the above description that I combine several laterallyadjustable sprinklers with a trough on which the attendant sits, who can conveniently regulate or entirely out off the discharge of the liquid from any one or more of the sprinklers at pleasure. It will also be seen that the long stems of the cock-plugs and their sectional guide-blocks will hold the sprinklers in any position to which they may be adjusted.

designates a long bar which is centrallyarranged on the bottom of the trough A, and provided with a number of arms, 10. This constitutes a rack which is allowed to receive endwise motion, which is given it by the attendant grasping a hand-lever, P, and vibrating the same. The object of the rackis to thoroughly agitate and stir the poisonous solution in the trough so that the poison used will be thoroughly mixed with the water.

I am aware that machines to sprinkle poisonous solutions have been heretofore made, and that such machines have been provided both with devices to agitate the solution and with laterally-adjustable sprinklers. I do not, therefore, claim either of the latter broadly.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a machine to sprinkle poisonous solutions over vines, the combinationof a horizontal laterally-swinging sprinkling-tube, having the valve f, provided with the actuating-stem g, with the block F, provided with vertical holes which form bearings for the stem in different positions of the sprinkling-tube and hold the vertical holes forming bearings for the stems latter in place when set in any desired posiin different positions of the san e,substantially tion, substantially as specified. as specified.

2. The combination, with the trough A, In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 5 having a seat in a central position, and the my own I affix my signature in presence of I 5 sprinkling-tubes D, turning on the bottom of two Witnesses.

the trough by means of the joints a, and pro- ALLEN O. PACKARD. vided with the valves f, of the valve-stems g, Witnesses: provided with handles h within easy reach of WV. 0. LAMOREUX,

IO the driver, and the blocks F, provided with l JAMEs E. GARDINER. 

